UPDATE: We are no longer taking submissions, but reader responses are featured here, next to the actual policies proposed in the budget.

On Tuesday, Finance Minister Mike de Jong will deliver the B.C. Liberal government’s final budget before the general election this spring. To illustrate the enormity of the task, the Finance Ministry even posted to its website a budget simulation tool citizens can use to try balancing the province’s books.

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark waits for Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon to deliver the Throne Speech at the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, Feb. 12, 2013.
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